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It's not an about face. They believe they now have enough power to take off their masks and reveal who they really are.
by taylodl 1y ago
It's not an about face. They believe they now have enough power to take off their masks and reveal who they really are.
- bediger4000 1y agoWait, that implies that the (broadly conservative) demands for freedom of speech on campus were mere lies, shams assumed to fool the media and those who actually cherished free speech. I'm having trouble reconciling this.
- taylodl 1y agoThat's easy - they just want free speech for themselves, not anyone they disagree with. What their supporters don't realize is they don't speak with one voice, so it's inevitable the machine will turn on them too and suppress their speech.
- quuxplusone 1y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18506429 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18506429 "We don't have any problem with satire and sarcasm as such, but on a large public forum like HN, with everything a mile wide and an inch deep, they are nearly always associated with really low-quality discussion."
- UncleMeat 1y agoThey were lies. William F Buckley first got famous calling for professors at Yale to be fired for not being sufficiently conservative. And that trend has never let up.